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We hope that this web publication will in some small measure reflect the excitement of the RHIC and AGS program at Brookhaven, as explained by some of the people who are doing the experiments, analyzing the data, and writing the papers.
The
RHIC/AGS Users' Meeting and Elections
By Jim Sowinski
As the snow comes down it seems like June, warm weather and the
annual Users' meeting are a long time in the future. But it is
time to start the planning for what we hope will be a
celebration of a successful run 9. More...
From
BNL to KISTI: Establishing High Performance Data Transfer From
the US to Asia
By Dantong Yu, Jerome Lauret and In-Kwon Yoo
Modern high energy and nuclear physics experiments yield huge
amounts of data and thus require efficient and high capacity
storage and transfer. As one such massive data-generating
experiment, the RHIC/STAR experiment has the capability to
acquire as many as 1000 collision events per second during
run-time. More...
After
the 3rd International Conference on Women in Physics – What We
as a Community Can Do
By Christine Nattrass
In October I attended the 3rd International Conference on Women
in Physics (ICWIP) in South Korea. Both Yale University and
Brookhaven National Laboratory made contributions of $5000 and
each donation allowed two physicists from developing countries
to attend. More...
Users' e-Log
Short news items of interest to the RHIC/AGS community. This
week: PECASE Awards and Thesis Award Competition. More...
The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National
Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility primarily
funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Hundreds
of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the
universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its
creation. What physicists learn from these collisions may help us
understand more about why the physical world works the way it does,
from the smallest subatomic particles, to the largest stars.